Quotes About Words

filosofi in parole e in opere,

Words are important for the mind, but the notes are for the soul.

That is not the case. We do not blame words for being insufficient to express new ideas.

The work equalises the emotions, and enables the two submerged to surface in series of unpredictable configurations. Work is the constant carnival; words, the rhythm and pace of two, who mine undeveloped seams of the earth and share the treasure.

Words can be as irrevocable as an action. They can cut as deeply as a surgeon's scalpel.

If I believe that art can, in fact, save us, over and over again, then does it follow that I risk the audacity of believing that you might be the very one who needs my words to save your life?

Así como esta lluvia, me desbordo en palabras para contarte todos mis quehaceres, para meterte en todos los rincones de mi día, en todos los aleros de mis horas

Por ahora, sólo nuestras palabras son propias de titantes, pero nuestras obras son de hormigas y topos. Incluso las termitas nos pueden dar lecciones de grandeza. El hombre moderno, a pesar de su jactancia, piensa como Gulliver y no se da cuenta que vive al nivel de Liliput.

A linguagem acha-se toda ensopada de mentiras.

John MacKechnie's Gaelic Without Groans

Almost all words do have color and nothing is more pleasant than to utter a pink word and see someone's eyes light up and know it is a pink word for him or her too.

It was a terrible refreshment, his plain way, the simple words, the absence of strategy. It made you realize how much of your life you spent not being like that. It made you realize what a waste not being like that was.

Interpreting literature was like performing a piece of music. It was a matter of lines and phrases, of hearing the resonance and learning where the stress falls. The note A has little significance by itself, just like the words love and yes. Yet placed just right, surrounded by other notes, other words, even a single tone can absorb all the forcefulness of our need, returning it to us as meaning.

Later on, we'll address how imprints from the early years can be rewired, not through logic and words, but through strategies involving imagery, emotions, and body-based skills.

From the abundance of your heart, your mouth will speak.

Out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth leaks.

I didn't hear words that were accurate, much less prideful. For example, I never once heard the word clitoris. It would be years before I learned that females possessed the only organ in the human body with no function than to feel pleasure. (If such an organ were unique to the male body, can you imagine how much we would hear about it—and what it would be used to justify?)

I felt as if I had no control over what I said, as if loathsome, ugly words were waiting inside me like snakes and toads looking for a chance to sneak out before I could stop them.

To grant me a vision of Nature's forces that bind the world, all its seeds and sources and innermost life... all this I shall see... and stop peddling in words that mean nothing to me." (Daß ich erkenne was die Welt im Innersten zusammenhält... Schau alle Wirkenskraft und Samen... und tu nicht mehr in Worten kramen.)

Not Grey ones! Gryphons! – No one likes the name Of something grey. Every word rings With what conditioned it: its origins: Grey, grievous, grumpy, gruesome, gravely, grimly, Similarly harmonious etymologically, Disharmonise us.

Lo que cuentan no son los actos, sino los motivos, no las palabras, sino los sentimientos.

SOUND vibrations of your words affect the space around them. You literary TOUCH others with what you say.

The ink of timeless books transmutes in tinge and shade from one century to another but classic words never fade.

Never use a long word when a diminutive one will do.